# Request for re-examination (再審査請求, さいしんさせいきゅう) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/request-for-reexamination. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Group: Rights, roles and legal effects - URL: https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/request-for-reexamination - In Japanese: https://japanlaw.org/ja/concepts/request-for-reexamination - Written by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-18 A further request, by a person who objects to the determination (裁決) on a request for review (審査請求) of a disposition (処分), that can be made only where an Act provides for one against that disposition (Administrative Complaint Review Act, Article 6, paragraph (1)). It is made to the administrative agency (行政庁) that Act names, against either the original determination (原裁決) or the disposition itself (paragraph (2)): the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for instance, has it made to the Social Insurance Examination Committee (社会保険審査会) against a social insurance examiner's (社会保険審査官) decision, and disapplies the Administrative Complaint Review Act's rules on it (Employees' Pension Insurance Act, Articles 90, paragraph (1), and 91-2). Another Act can set rules of its own for it in this way (Administrative Complaint Review Act, Article 1, paragraph (2)). Under the Administrative Complaint Review Act, it must be made within one month of the day after the person learned of the original determination and within a year of it, unless there is a justifiable reason (Article 62). The agency reviewing it decides it by a determination: it dismisses a request that is unlawful, for instance one made too late; rejects one that is groundless, or one where the original determination turned down the request for review wrongly but the disposition was neither unlawful nor unjust; and, where one is well founded, revokes the original determination or the disposition in whole or in part — unless revoking it, or abolishing a de facto act, would seriously harm the public interest, when the agency can reject the request while declaring the determination or disposition unlawful or unjust (Articles 64, paragraphs (1) to (4), and 65, paragraph (1)). Where the request is about a de facto act (事実上の行為), the determination instead declares the act unlawful or unjust and orders the agency that made the disposition to abolish it in whole or in part (Article 65, paragraph (2)). An agency making a determination against which this request can be made must say so in it, naming the agency to make it to and the time allowed (Article 50, paragraph (3)). Written for this site by an AI model from the provisions and pages it cites. Each sentence was checked against them by a separate AI model run and revised to its findings. Not reviewed by a lawyer. ## Provisions and sources it draws on - [Administrative Complaint Review Act, Arts. 1, 6, 50, 62, 64, 65](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/426AC0000000068) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act - [Employees' Pension Insurance Act, Arts. 90, 91-2](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329AC0000000115) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act ## Where the laws use it 7 laws in force use it in this sense, in 18 provisions; there the word opens this explanation. - [Administrative Complaint Review Act (行政不服審査法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act): 9 provisions, among them [Article 6](https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-6), [Article 50](https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-50), [Article 62](https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-62) - [Health Insurance Act (健康保険法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 189](https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-189), [Article 191](https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-191) - [Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act (労働者災害補償保険法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 38](https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-38), [Article 39](https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-39) - [Employees' Pension Insurance Act (厚生年金保険法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 90](https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-90), [Article 91-2](https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-91-2) - [National Pension Act (国民年金法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act): 1 provision, among them [Article 101](https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-101) - [Public Assistance Act (生活保護法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act): 1 provision, among them [Article 66](https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-66) - [Employment Insurance Act (雇用保険法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act): 1 provision, among them [Article 69](https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-69) ## Related - [Act (法律, ほうりつ)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/act) - [Social insurance examiner (社会保険審査官, しゃかいほけんしんさかん)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/social-insurance-examiner) - [Social Insurance Examination Committee (社会保険審査会, しゃかいほけんしんさかい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/social-insurance-examination-committee) - [Rescission (取消し, とりけし)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/rescission) - [Request for review (審査請求, しんさせいきゅう)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/request-for-review) - [Industrial accident compensation insurance examiner (労働者災害補償保険審査官, ろうどうしゃさいがいほしょうほけんしんさかん)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/industrial-accident-insurance-examiner) - [Employment insurance examiner (雇用保険審査官, こようほけんしんさかん)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/employment-insurance-examiner) --- ## Sources - Explanation: Written for this site with AI (claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-18) - Where it is used, and how often: Worked out by this site from e-Gov's text - English names of the laws: Japanese Law Translation, Ministry of Justice (7 records)